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To: Free America52

It’s not a conspiracy if it is true!


45 posted on 04/14/2010 7:29:56 AM PDT by stockpirate ("......When the government fears the people you have liberty." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: stockpirate
Actually a conspiracy doesn't mean "crackpot" or "rumor".

It means a coordination by 2 or more persons to engage in an enterprise (often underhanded, often criminal) together (often to deceive).

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conspiracy

con·spir·a·cy  –noun,plural-cies.
1.the act of conspiring.
2.an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot.
3.a combination of persons for a secret, unlawful, or evil purpose: He joined the conspiracy to overthrow the government.
4.Law. an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act.
5.any concurrence in action; combination in bringing about a given result.

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.

61 posted on 04/14/2010 7:41:07 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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